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[Dovecot] Imap Folder activity detect
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi all, We are migrating a mail service with 80.000 users, and 40.000 of them are using IMAP. At present, this service is handled by Courier, with some custom patches. And we are migrating to Dovecot 1.2.15. One of these patches is used to interact with Spamassassin. If Courier detects any move/copy operation to the "IsSPAM" or "IsntSPAM" folders, a specific bash script is executed like IsSPAM.sh and IsntSPAM.sh These scripts do the following: IsSPAM.sh 1. Takes user as parameter USER. 2. Retrieves the homeDirectory of USER from ldap, using ldapsearch. 3. Executes /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam ... with IsSPAM folder IsntSPAM.sh 1. Takes user as parameter USER. 2. Retrieves the homeDirectory of USER from ldap, using ldapsearch. 3. Executes /usr/bin/sa-learn --ham ... with IsntSPAM folder 4. Moves all content from IsntSPAM to INBOX I think that it shouldn't be very hard to implement a plugin to detect MOVE/COPY events to specified folders, and to execute specified scripts on detection. Is there already such a plugin for dovecot 1.2.15?

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[Dovecot] 2.0.5: doveadm reload results in dovecot/auth crashing
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

It's not THAT bad, but: GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Core was generated by `dovecot/auth'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xb7729430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #0 0xb7729430 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7551751 in ?? () No symbol table info available. (gdb) quit I think my automatic debugger script needs to be fixed. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] How to add the missing maildir folders
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi fellow list members, What would be the best way to add the .Sent,.Draft, etc. folders to the maildir tree? It seems not Dovecots task to do that but of the MUA. I have seen several options. Use of skel but that works only for new system users. I have only virtual users preloaded in a database. I've discoverred that ONLY Roundcube add the folders (if configured to do that) but I've not been able to have the folders created by Thunderbird. Yes, you can manage the subscribtions to folders but there is no way to create them. I did not bother to try Outlook... MY users use pop3, imap and web (Roundcube) but I cannot ask them to use Roundcube first, just to create the folders. I have no such thing as maildrop, which seems to be able to create folders. Should I run some script during login? How? TIA Egbert Jan (NL)

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[Dovecot] Feature request for maildir style boxes
by David Ford 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

greetings, i'd like to ask for a certain feature request. dovecot:maildir_uidlist_recreate() to set the gid of new files based on the parent directory group ownership and normally that's desired, an appropriate security method. on our server, we use directory permissions to more stringently isolate access between users and services. we have three group ids used for this, and i'll use my name as example. Oct 05 13:44:30 imap(david): Error: fchown(/home/david/.maildir/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, -1, 497(net-mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1234(david), group based on /home/david/.maildir) Colt log # ls -ld /home/ /home/david /home/david/public_html/ /home/david/.maildir /home/david/.maildir/cur|awk '{printf "%s %5s %9s %s\n", $1,$3,$4,$9}' drwxr-xr-x root root /home/ drwx--x--- david net-all /home/david drwxr-x--- david net-mail /home/david/.maildir drwx------ david david /home/david/.maildir/cur drwxr-x--- david net-web /home/david/public_html/ the purpose of this is to prevent undesired access to personal files. users cannot 'cd' or 'ls' in other user's home directories, mail stores, or web files. apache, procmail, dovecot et cetera, are in the appropriate groups and therefore have access needed to do file ops. however, they're limited to their appropriate stores. as mentioned at the beginning, dovecot tries to match the gid of the parent directory for new files and normally, that's desired and expected behavior, but in our case. dovecot creates the file as uid/gid of the user, so the knob can either ignore the failure to set gid per the parent and not log it, or not attempt to set the gid per parent in the first place. src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-uidlist.c 1412: if (box->file_create_gid != (gid_t)-1 && fchown(fd, (uid_t)-1, box->file_create_gid) < 0) { if (errno == EPERM) { mail_storage_set_critical(box->storage, "%s", eperm_error_get_chgrp("fchown", temp_path, box->file_create_gid, box->file_create_gid_origin)); } else { mail_storage_set_critical(box->storage, "fchown(%s) failed: %m", temp_path); } } to something like: ( "new_files_inherit_parent_gid = true" ) if (box->file_create_gid != -1 && --> box->new_files_inherit_parent_gid) { fchown(fd, -1, box->file_create_gid) ... } bool new_files_inherit_parent_gid [default true] could be added the following for example: src/lib-storage/mailbox-list-private.h:struct mailbox_list src/lib-storage/mail-storage-private.h:struct mailbox this block of code appears in similar instances for a number of other occasions (and could be made a more global function), but not all files in ~/.maildir/* appear to use a function like this. the uidvalidity functions are a little different for example. == for a busy mail server, that's a lot of excess logging and pollution when trying to review nightly logs for issues :) thank you for the consideration, -david

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[Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

When starting 2.0.5, I'm getting: # /usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot -F doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=4096 } is lower than required under max. load (12288) doveconf: Fatal: execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed: Argument list too long Argument list too long? WTF? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by fakessh 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

hi folks hi timo , is a good day for you I use a double deliverance root and user i use lda deliver dovecot authentification and since the switch to 2.0.4 I encounter the problem that the box Maildir root for the name of the INBOX after passing sieve is the type root(a)nsXXXX.ovh.net how to correct the problem Timo your lights -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x092164A7 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 092164A7

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[Dovecot] Force index 2.04
by Henrique Fernandes 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hey, i am gonna migrate 240 GB of emails. To a new server with dovecot 2.0.4 and i am gonna also change the format from mbox to maildir. Everything is pretty ready. But i now need two things. First is, is there any command to rebuild index files in dovecot ? And i need to force a initial squat build, need comand for it also. It is about 5 thousands accounts. Its prefere have this built in dovecot than run a script that log in every sing account to make dovecot index the files, and after it make a small search to make initial squat also. Any one can help ? []'sf.rique

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Re: [Dovecot] How to add the missing maildir folders
by interfaSys sàrl 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Looks like it's also possible to use doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Mailbox

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Re: [Dovecot] How to add the missing maildir folders
by interfaSys sàrl 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hello, There is the autocreate plugin[1], but the problem is that a user cannot delete those mailboxes. It can be a problem for people using clients in different languages and that want mailboxes in these languages. I would be great if Dovecot could make some of these automatic mailboxes optional. Cheers, Olivier [1] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Autocreate > Hi fellow list members, > > What would be the best way to add the .Sent,.Draft, etc. folders to the > maildir tree? It seems not Dovecots task to do that but of the MUA. > > I have seen several options. Use of skel but that works only for new > system users. I have only virtual users preloaded in a database. I've > discoverred that ONLY Roundcube add the folders (if configured to do > that) but I've not been able to have the folders created by Thunderbird. > Yes, you can manage the subscribtions to folders but there is no way to > create them. I did not bother to try Outlook... MY users use pop3, imap > and web (Roundcube) but I cannot ask them to use Roundcube first, just > to create the folders. > > I have no such thing as maildrop, which seems to be able to create > folders. Should I run some script during login? How? > > TIA > Egbert Jan (NL) >

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[Dovecot] release plan for dovecot antispam plugin?
by Tom Hendrikx 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hi, I noticed that someone took over the development of the dovecot antispam plugin, and the is currently hosted at dovecots hg repo. Great to see that the plugin is not dead! ;) I created a gentoo ebuild that builds the plugin from the repo, and the plugin seems to work nice with dspam (using mailtrain backend). I'm running a checkout from Tue Sep 21 16:14:48 2010. However, it is lacking a release so distributions can also easily update the plugin. Is there any news on this? Regards, Tom

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